The weekly web ramble (5/23)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Rolling Stone makes their picks for the 40 best YA novels

– The Rory Gilmore reading challenge

– The ALA’s take on the FCC’s Net Neutrality proposal

<– AUTHOR TALK

Markus Zusak explores the positive side of failure

– Chuck Wendig on why he doesn’t believe in writer’s block anymore

Maggie Stiefvater explains how her characters are the questions in her head

Javier Grillo-Marxuach on operational themes

WEB READS –>

The Cabinet of Curiosities

– Read the first ten chapters of The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief and Sinister by Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, and Emma Trevayne

TheGirlwithalltheGifts

– Check out an excerpt from The Girl with All The Gifts by M.R. Carey

Willful Impropriety

– Read the full short story, The Unladylike Education of Agatha Tremain, by Stephanie Burgis

Isla and the Happily Ever After

– Check out the first two chapters of Isla and The Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins